PhD: The Musical – coming soon to a university near you
With PhD students now presenting doctoral findings in the form of a cabaret or video documentary, is it time to ditch the thesis and viva? asks Jack Grove
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Sally Hunt: universities should ‘donate strike pay to bursaries’
UCU leader will tell congress that docked salaries should be handed to student hardship funds
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New European university group unveiled
Guild of European Research Intensive Universities aims to ‘complement’ existing alliances
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Rhodes Trust to launch new institute and expand scholarships
The Atlantic Philanthropies gives £75 million to Rhodes Trust and £64.4 million for LSE inequality research
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What do the public really think about academics?
Do people fear the menace of 'transient academics', or is it just more scholarly infighting? Gerard Kelly writes
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London Met plans to cut 400 jobs in ‘rebuild’ vision
Move to axe 14 per cent of workforce branded ‘devastating’, but v-c insists change needed
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Great teaching cannot be captured by ‘dangerously soulless’ algorithms
Beware reliance on teaching excellence framework metrics, says Claire Taylor
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EU-funded professors deny claims of bias from Brexit campaigners
Jean Monnet chairs say they encourage full debate on the union, although one has written that when the EU is criticised, ‘our instinct is to defend it’
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US college ranking launched by Times Higher Education
New ranking of colleges, due for publication in September 2016, has been developed with input from key US sector bodies and experts
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How much will the TEF cost universities and the taxpayer?
James Andrew Smith looks at the likely administrative costs of the teaching excellence framework in the light of the costs of the REF
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Why early career researchers should care about public engagement
Dominic Glynn urges academics who are just starting out to shout their research from the rooftops
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Roma: the UK’s forgotten higher education minority
Only a tiny fraction of the group enter university in the UK and across Europe, but attempts are being made to change the situation
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Scientific excellence ‘at risk’ from Brexit
The UK’s leading role in shaping the future of science would be lost if voters choose to leave research ‘superpower’, pro-Remain voices warn